--- title: Dogs and cats share our homes, so we think we know their minds, but… — Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and unders… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs and cats share our homes, so we think we know their minds, but scientists keep finding surprises with careful tests. Who acts: Dogs, we, scientists. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dogs, we, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:0 # text = Dogs and cats share our homes, so we think we know their minds, but scientists keep finding surprises with careful tests. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 19 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 xcomp _ _ 20 surprises surprise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** | present | Dogs and cats | our homes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | we | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **know** | present | we | Dogs's minds | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mind=Stimulus | | 4 | **keep** | present | scientists | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | gerund | scientists *not said here* | surprises | | | | with careful tests | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surprise=Topic | | 6 | **mind** | | Dogs *= dog* | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:0`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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